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Hello from Queenstown. Gosh it's cold here. This is a quick one to update on a few things. We've tried really hard to push for a mega but the stars did not align. It's a tough pill to swallow because we've had a whole roll-out planned to get to the magical 300 will attends but you can't market a big event if you can't make the big event happen. Lots has happened and we've attempted at least 3 different contingencies but the ask was too much for the resources at hand.

That doesn't mean that that we stop. I'm sure there will be better success for a 2026 attempt but the show must carry on.

Personally, I was hoping to launch the attempt with the inauguaral GoSA Awards or GoSAers but that doesn't mean we can't still do it and the other things...so here we go. A little bit of an update before we resume the regular June newsletter (only 2 days away so send your stuff)...

Some of the more perceptive of you would have noticed the add to our YouTube channel but if you haven't...

The Annual GoSA Awards 2025
by GoSA

Those who spent the year doing us proud deserve a big shout out and this is how we'll do it. It's intended that we'll do the same thing monthly on a less extensive level using our TikTok account too.

While we were away

The geocaching continued and what is great about it is that we have comparable stats across the months. You know what that means...GRAPHS!

Community Contributions
SA Geocaching Stats
By Adventure_T and Danie Viljoen

Because sometimes, for some people, it is about the numbers…

Top 5 Finders for the month (and caches found):					Jan 2025			Feb 2025			Mar 2025
1	BDuthie13	285	1	BDuthie13	275	1	BDuthie13	280	1	iPajero	325
2	Eksteen	198	2	The_VanWyks	156	2	The_VanWyks	274	2	BDuthie13	251
3	El_Mue	89	3	3tea	137	3	60316	80	2	Matthias999	191
4	PieterM	88	4		124	4	Pullalulla	28	4	The_VanWyks	121
5		82	5	Voëlhond	105	5	bbc_	27	5	zuppie	64

Top 5 Hiders for the month (and caches hidden):					Jan 2025			Feb 2025			Mar 2025
1	teammartins	14	1	BowlsBoy	9	1	QwikChek	6	1	QwikChek	5
2	ge0cath	5	2	QwikChek	8	2	Andredj	4	2	Andredj	3
3	SKATTIE@1>	4	3	waydom	7	2	iPajero	4	2	mypinga	3
4	QwikChek	3	4	Strandlopers w&e	4	4	mypinga	3	2	iPajero	3
5	Andredj	3	5	elfishhenry	2	4	SuzanneIlianaAlissa	3	5	mypinga	2
			5	Anrichdt	2				5	Voëlhond	2
									5	Mr325	2
									5	Wakkers	2
									5	MacAddikt	2
									5	frewbru	2
									5	Uncle Chem	2

Top 5 Finders for 2025 (and caches found):					Feb 2025			Mar 2025
	Watch Awards	1	BDuthie13	275	1	BDuthie13	555	1	BDuthie13	806
		2	The_VanWyks	156	2	The_VanWyks	430	2	The_VanWyks	551
		2	3tea	137	3	3tea	149	3	iPajero	330
		4		124	4		126	4	Matthias999	212
		5	Voëlhond	105	5	Voëlhond	122	5	3tea	164

Top 5 Hiders for 2025 (and caches hidden):
	Watch Awards	Jan 2025			Feb 2025			Mar 2025
		1	BowlsBoy	9	1	QwikChek	14	1	QwikChek	19
		2	QwikChek	8	2	BowlsBoy	10	2	BowlsBoy	10
		3	waydom	7	3	waydom	7	2	Andredj	7
		4	Strandlopers w&e	4	4	Andredj	4	4	waydom	7
		5	elfishhenry	2	4	iPajero	4	5	iPajero	7
		5	Anrichdt	2	4	Strandlopers w&e	4

Top 5 Finders of South African caches for ALL TIME (and caches found):				Jan 2025				Feb 2025				Mar 2025
1	iPajero	21999	(26563 incl int)	1	iPajero	22001	(26565 incl int)	1	iPajero	22004	(26947 incl int)	1	iPajero	22329	(26948 incl int)
2	The Huskies	9422	(14085 incl int)	2	The Huskies	9422	(14085 incl int)	2	The Huskies	9422	(14087 incl int)	2	The Huskies	9423	(14092 incl int)
3	SKATTIE@1>	8704	(10382 incl int)	3	SKATTIE@1>	8707	(10390 incl int)	3	SKATTIE@1>	8715	(10401 incl int)	3	SKATTIE@1>	8723	(10873 incl int)
3	rodnjoan	8671	(9327 incl int)	3	rodnjoan	8674	(9328 incl int)	3	rodnjoan	8675	(9330 incl int)	3	rodnjoan	8677	(9331 incl int)
5	terunkie	8491	(9206 incl int)	5	terunkie	8502	(9217 incl int)	5	terunkie	8515	(9232 incl int)	5	terunkie	8526	(9246 incl int)

Top 5 Hiders of South African caches for ALL TIME (and caches hidden):			Jan 2025			Feb 2025			Mar 2025
1	PieterM	593	1	PieterM	593	1	PieterM	593	1	PieterM	593
2	Adventure_T	540	2	Adventure_T	540	2	Adventure_T	540	2	Adventure_T	540
3	iPajero	459	3	iPajero	459	3	iPajero	463	3	iPajero	466
4	SKATTIE@1>	425	4	QwikChek	447	4	QwikChek	453	4	QwikChek	458
5	Panthera03	421	5	SKATTIE@1>	425	5	SKATTIE@1>	425	5	SKATTIE@1>	425

Top 5 Maintainers for the month (and caches maintained):					Jan 2025					Feb 2025					Mar 2025
			active caches	ratio				active caches	ratio				active caches	ratio				active caches	ratio
1	iPajero	25	216	0.12	1	fawny	15	76	0.2	1	FireflyAfrica	12	60	0.2	1	iPajero	8	213	0.04
2	jacoross	8	17	0.47	2	BelvidereBelle	9	69	0.13	2	BelvidereBelle	8	68	0.12	2	RATKAS	2	2	1
3	BelvidereBelle	8	69	0.12	3	RATKAS	7	2	3.5	3	Strandlopers w&e	6	69	0.09	3	The_VanWyks	2	6	0.33
4	0utasight	6	7	0.86	4	BowlsBoy	6	54	0.11	4	BowlsBoy	2	54	0.04	4	Team Ginger	2	11	0.18
5	IceOfPhoenix88	2	6	0.33	5	Blue Bull Magic	3	5	0.6	5	Desertal	2	162	0.01	5	ge0cath	2	63	0.03

Note: All the above statistics include all South African caches on the geocaching.com database, which doesn’t include Adventure Labs.

They are your local go-to people, so keep their details for future reference

Eastern Cape	FireflyAfrica (Jonker Fourie)	082 889 2459
Free State	Uncle Chem (Richard Chemaly)	072 431 7131
Gauteng	Leon St (Leon Stoop)	071 330 8435
KwaZulu-Natal	M²C²D (Mark & Ceinwen Oosthuizen)	M 083 324 6176 C 083 324 2167
Limpopo	Boats007 (Willem Botha)	082 463 3700
Mpumalanga	Bouts777 (Gerhard Botha)	082 876 3572
North-West	Team Tip Top (Hansie & Zaneta Van Huyssteen)	H 082 753 8082 Z 083 258 5926
Western & Northern Cape	SKATTIE@1 (Elize Louw)	074 138 6360

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